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I have an Acer Aspire Switch 10E, which I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Windows 10 Home, as a standard dual installation. I can't connect to my home WiFi network on Ubuntu, it isn't even recognised, but it works fine on the Windows OS on the same machine. My computer hasn't got an ethernet port, but I can access WiFi on Windows. The WiFi network is not hidden, and lspci shows

EDIT: I have just dug out an old PiHut Raspberry Pi WiFi dongle and plugged it into the only USB port on the detachable keyboard. I immediately got a notification saying that it had detected a WiFi network: my home WiFi. I can now use the internet and the apt package manager, but I would still like a way of using WiFi without this, as it takes up my only USB port, but this is progress!😀